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thecapitol2014-03-14 10:26 am
thatwasme) wrote in thecapitol2014-03-14 10:26 am
Entry tags:
- cassandra marko,
- harley quinn,
- matthew "punchy" o'connor,
- wyatt earp,
- ✘ azula,
- ✘ brainiac 5,
- ✘ carlos the scientist,
- ✘ diana ladris,
- ✘ donatello,
- ✘ ellie,
- ✘ eren,
- ✘ ian chesterton,
- ✘ ian gallagher,
- ✘ jean kirschtein,
- ✘ joel,
- ✘ justin law,
- ✘ kain highwind,
- ✘ kevin prentiss,
- ✘ max guevara,
- ✘ maximus,
- ✘ mindy macready,
- ✘ orc,
- ✘ pruna,
- ✘ rat,
- ✘ shion
( open ) off to the races
Who| OPEN.
What| The First Annual Panem Motorcycle Races and Festival kick off.
Where| The Capitol.
When| Friday - Sunday.
Warnings/Notes| For more information, check out the original post, or see the results and winnings post.
Starting Friday, the Capitol has pushed out onto the chill streets with hopes for entertainment and the thrill of races most of them have no personal stakes in. The races are spread out over the first few days, with whispers of a surprise happening on Sunday. Everyone's theorizing what it could be. It's the nature of crowds to indulge in curiosity on a massive, gossipy level, and the Citizens of the Capitol are no exception.
Aside from the races, people stopped by the ice skating rink sponsored by one of the museums from the last Arena, with a Mindy themed focus. There are ride-alongs: Capitolites make a donation to the Gamemaker's Foundation (or something, idk) in order to get a chance to ride along on a short loop track with a racer. They can make this donation and then dictate anyone be the tag-along, from themselves, to their children, to another Tribute/Mentor. Why? Because Shippers.
Set indoors, there's Bumpercycle Jousting. Minimal injury, maximum ridiculous.
And back on the street, there's festival foods, with businesses opening doors and inviting chilled citizens in to enjoy special foods and drink and merchandise suited to the season and post-Games festivities.
Each night finishes with a round of fireworks in the sky.
What| The First Annual Panem Motorcycle Races and Festival kick off.
Where| The Capitol.
When| Friday - Sunday.
Warnings/Notes| For more information, check out the original post, or see the results and winnings post.
Starting Friday, the Capitol has pushed out onto the chill streets with hopes for entertainment and the thrill of races most of them have no personal stakes in. The races are spread out over the first few days, with whispers of a surprise happening on Sunday. Everyone's theorizing what it could be. It's the nature of crowds to indulge in curiosity on a massive, gossipy level, and the Citizens of the Capitol are no exception.
Aside from the races, people stopped by the ice skating rink sponsored by one of the museums from the last Arena, with a Mindy themed focus. There are ride-alongs: Capitolites make a donation to the Gamemaker's Foundation (or something, idk) in order to get a chance to ride along on a short loop track with a racer. They can make this donation and then dictate anyone be the tag-along, from themselves, to their children, to another Tribute/Mentor. Why? Because Shippers.
Set indoors, there's Bumpercycle Jousting. Minimal injury, maximum ridiculous.
And back on the street, there's festival foods, with businesses opening doors and inviting chilled citizens in to enjoy special foods and drink and merchandise suited to the season and post-Games festivities.
Each night finishes with a round of fireworks in the sky.
Re: BEFORE THE RACE
"Consider yourself lucky. It is a great honor to be included in such an event. Especially for someone from outside our world."
Clearly she was not impressed with her competition so far, or maybe she was still smarting from having finished in sixth place in her own race. the throbbing in her back from where she had crashed and been thrown off her bike had only just been soothed and she was heavily medicated today to make up for it.
Re: BEFORE THE RACE
Re: BEFORE THE RACE
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"Oh yes, that's a brilliant idea. You should just stop halfway through the race and fill your pockets with...leaves or whatever it is you would sample. I'm sure they won't punish you for that at all."
Some tributes had the most quaint ideas.
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"Oh of course not. I'm sure they'll be perfectly fine with you abandoning your task of completing the race so that you may collect items to further your intelligence through research. After all the Capitol is happy to provide you with anything you want aren't they?"
What kind of fool thought Science should just be taught freely to everyone and anyone?
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"You might be right," he said, "but I can't ignore this opportunity to collect samples. I won't have enough time to run tests in the field, but I'm sure I'll be able to analyze them properly after the race."
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"And what do you hope to learn from these samples? Or are you just clutching at the blanket term "Anything"?" It seemed to her that science without hope of a particular end result was just gambling.
And she loathed to take a risk without the odds being stacked in her favor.
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"And I'll do it with science. So you see, the samples are important."
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"And then what?" She questioned. "What good will it serve you to know your location in the universe? It will not change your situation, nor will it ultimately effect your fate. Knowing where...or I suppose when you are will not change what is going to happen to you between now and your next inevitable death."
Folding her arms she looked terribly unimpressed. "I can't help but feel that unlike the Capitol Scientists who actually make use of science...you're simply toying with it like a child playing with his fathers tool box."
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Oh no you didn't, Azula.
"Unlike the Capitol scientists," Carlos began, slow and deliberate, "I study science for the sake of science. They do it for profit, and for governments that will keep their findings secret. I may not have the resources that the Capitol scientists have, but everything I learn I will share with the public, the way a scientist should." He took a breath, and as he went on his cadence sped up. "It may not mean much to you, but understanding where and when I am is important to me, and may be important to other people here. And you can't know how useful this knowledge could be, no one can. 'Useful' isn't the same as 'profitable,' anyone who's worked on a government grant knows that!"
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"And if the findings you share should damage the public? Cause chaos and pain? What then You so called scientist? Science is a powerful tool and an even more powerful weapon. You would thrust such things into the hands of so many simple minded fools? People who would just as soon use that science to harm themselves?"
Just how did any of these otherworlders survive without the Capitol's guidance?
do you think this argument is being televised? also I apologize for the edit spam, I'm happy now
He waited a moment, letting his temper calm a bit, before he went on.
"I see that our differences lie in our opinion of the public," Carlos said firmly. "You believe that science belongs only in the hands of the government, which can decide which developments to let the public have access to, with the intention of protecting humanity from itself." That was ignoring her personal attacks on his credibility, but if this devolved into name-calling, nothing would get done. "But I believe in a system where the results of all experiments are placed in the public domain," argued Carlos passionately, "because I think that it's infinitely less likely for the general public to use science as a weapon than --"
--than for a secretive government to, he stopped himself from saying. Shoot. He was on camera. He couldn't actually make this argument, not without marking himself as subversive.
"--than for them to use scientific advancements for the general good," he finished, after a pause that was only slightly awkward. Damn, he was going to lose this argument because of municipal surveillance, and that stung. "Are we still talking about dating rocks?" he said irritably.
Probably, but of course it's edited in favor of the Capitol,
"You are either underestimating the public's ability to make terrible choices, or over estimating their ability to do things for the greater good."
Really, how could any of them see the big picture when they were so invested in themselves?
"Consider the fact that this world was not so unlike your own once." She speculated knowing all too little about Carlo's world. "And consider that our world was almost destroyed because of a system like the one you propose. Does it really seem like something worth trying a second time when the first attempt brought us so close to extinction?"
oh ofc, this helps Azula's public image--and Carlos gets dressed as a mad scientist at the crowning
Carlos hated to back down on this point, but really, he didn't have a choice.
I find you and everything you do with him delightful
"Enjoy your short time outside the capitol. I'm sure you'll pay for it later so make it worth the pain."
do you want to thread them post-race too? for epic Azula butthurt?
"I will take samples," he muttered under his breath, probably too quiet for her to hear, "and I'll show you who's a so-called scientist."
Given this will be her second loss, I think Azula would just take off after the race ^_^; sorry